by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 27, 2021 | News
Bias against a victim’s religious tradition was the third largest basis for hate crimes in the U.S. during 2020, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data released in late August. Religious bias was the basis for 13.4% of last year’s hate crime...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 6, 2021 | News
The total population in U.S. correctional systems dropped in 2019, marking the 12th straight year of declines, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published on July 16. At the end of the year in 2019, there were just over 6.3 million people in...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 8, 2020 | News
The U.S. prison population continued a multiyear decline in 2018, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April 2020. Overall, there was a 1.6% decrease in the total prison population in 2018, falling from nearly 1.49 million inmates...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 14, 2019 | News
The U.S. prisons population declined again in 2017, continuing a multiyear trend, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April. At the end of that year, the U.S. prison population was nearly 1.5 million people (at the state and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | News
Eighty-three percent of U.S. inmates were arrested at least once within the nine years following their release from incarceration, according to a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report released on May 23. Many previous studies measured recidivism over a three-...
